Adventures in and Around Fort Worth

One restaurant you must try when visiting Charleston is Fleet Landing. It has a great atmosphere on the water, and the food is even better than the view. Check out our awesome orders. Best biscuit I've ever had ... really Fried oysters on a bed of cheese grits smothered in barbecue sauce.  "The best thing on the menu," our waiter said. This is a whole flounder, scored and fried with the skin on. I know, I know, but the skin adds texture that made this treat incredible.  Vanilla Bean Crème Brulée  View from the balcony

Rarely can I justify spending $100 on myself for dinner, but I didn't feel one ounce of guilt at Charleston Grill  on King Street in South Carolina. The food here was an experience, an explosion of flavors, a culinary roller coaster ride.  I knew it was going to be good when the chef brought out a complimentary taste that was already one of my most memorable bites of food. It was a taste of what is to come. Above is a piece of jumbo lump crab meat served with a yellow tomato gazpacho jelly, vanilla sea salt and lemon crème fraiche. I wanted this for my dinner, but it wasn't on the menu. We started with the Foie Gras, which was sitting on sauteed apples smothered in a bourbon-cider sauce. To the side of the of the fatty duck liver was a cake doughnut also smothered in the sauce. The little white blob is a creamy, buttery mascarpone. This dish was divine and not like anything I've had before. We took a little bite of the foie gras with a little bite of dough...